Senior Systems Engineer Opportunity at EPAM
We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to join EPAM and support our client in the financial services sector at their office in Zurich. In this role, you will be working on an investment platform that serves as a strategic solution for investment products and client portfolio management across Switzerland, EMEA, and APAC.
The system is a multi-tier resilient enterprise cluster that integrates a mixture of open source, vendor, and client proprietary technologies. Over 15 applications are built on the platform, incorporating technologies such as RHEL, Spring Stack, Container Runtime, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Ignite, Oracle, Ansible, Eclipse RCP, React, Angular, and Prometheus/Grafana.
Embrace this exciting opportunity to shape the future of quality engineering with EPAM.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with technical experts, architects, and business teams to ensure that technical solutions align with functional requirements and strategic initiatives.
- Maintain and upgrade existing Platform OS integration components.
- Enhance existing Platform service implementations.
- Contribute to the Platform Modernization efforts.
- Analyze outages and defective states, initiating and monitoring measures to resolve them (3rd level support).
- Perform installations in test environments and manage installation orders to production.
- Provide consultancy and support to the project team regarding technical inquiries.
- Maintain operational documentation (operation manual, installation guide, etc.) and share your knowledge within the team.
Requirements
- Ideally, 5+ years of experience in a similar role focused on maintaining environments hosted in Linux operating systems.
- Broad technical skillset including deep knowledge of Linux operating systems, complemented by hands-on experience with Java, Apache web server, Tomcat, and Kafka.
- Experience scripting in one or more of the following languages: Perl, Python, Bash.
- Detailed understanding of DevOps pipelines and hands-on expertise with configuration management tools.
- Experience with Agile methodologies.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to independently analyze and address issues in time-sensitive situations.
- Good understanding of web application architecture.
- Proficient DevOps skills, including package creation and deployment.
- Basic networking knowledge (awareness of firewall rules is necessary).
- Proficient communication skills in English are required; knowledge of the German language is a significant advantage.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Gitlab-CI.
- Database knowledge (Oracle preferred; MSSQL is a plus).
- Java programming knowledge.
- Experience with Azure cloud.
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